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Author: Hoare, William

Biography:

HOARE, William (d 1808: Morning Post)

Hoare’s only publication, a collection of occasional poems and epigrams written as a diversion from business and addressed to his friends, is signed and dated Feb. 1803 from Powis Place, an address in Bloomsbury, London. The report of his death at Brighton on 3 Feb. 1808 gives the same address, and he was surely the man buried at St. George the Martyr, in nearby Queen Square, London, under only his surname, on Feb. 15. The only title given him is the gentlemanly “Esq.”; the BL copy of his book was a gift to his friend “John Morgan Esq.” His light verse reveals very little about his personal life, but he had a brother “P. H.” who lost a hat at Worthing and a friend aged 56 who was robbed of a watch on Primrose Hill. A series of epigrams jocularly celebrates the bathing machines of Worthing and Lancing (both seaside resorts like Brighton, also in Sussex). The general impression is of a carefree bachelor, possibly in middle age. He might have been the son of William and Christian (Jecock) Hoare who was baptised at St. Dunstan in the West, a City of London church, on 24 Mar. 1769. He may have been the William Hoare who married Elizabeth Rutter on 22 May 1804 at St. Marylebone, Westminster, and if so there was at least one child, Henry John. But he cannot also have been the William Hoare (1757-1808) who lived at Lambeth, died a widower, and was buried at Holy Trinity, Lambeth, on 14 Feb. And the prosperous and benevolent William Hoare, snuff-maker of 114 Fleet St., who had died at Lambeth in 1794 leaving a pregnant widow, might have been related to either or neither of them. (ancestry.com 27 Aug. 2022; findmypast.com 27 Aug. 2022; Morning Post 8 Feb. 1808; GM Oct. 1794, 961; GM Feb. 1808, 177)

 

Books written (1):

[London]: [printed by Christiana Rickaby], [1803]